Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disturbing Tone. But these were minor matters compared to another problem: the fuel tank feeding the fly-by-wire and the automatic control systems was only 45% full. Flight Director Christopher Columbus Kraft ordered Carpenter to start flying the capsule by the manual control system, which uses a separate fuel tank. As Carpenter approached California, Kraft decided that there was still enough fuel for a third orbit. But he told Astronaut Shepard at the microphone in the tracking station at Point Arguello: "We still want to emphasize to him to limit his auto fuel usage...
...thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another danger: Carpenter's manual fuel tank was empty, and his automatic tank was only 15% full. He might not be able to hold the capsule steady in its plunge back down through the earth's atmosphere. If the capsule tumbled, Scott Carpenter would perish in flames...
...broad, his 16½-in. calves bulge with muscle, and at 171 lbs. he weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in track history...
...school board post. To get revenge, Estes set up a rival paper. Upshot: the Independent investigated and printed the first exposure of Billie Sol's tank-mortgage fraud. The alarmed finance companies sent in swarms of investigators, and Billie Sol's empire came crashing down with a thud that reverberated all the way to Washington. On March 29, the FBI arrested Estes on charges of transporting the bogus mortgages across state lines. Estes is now out on bail, but is under both a federal indictment for fraud and a state indictment for theft...
sailors can tell a good boat when they see one. Gretel looks good. By the time Designer Alan Newbury Payne finishes tinkering with her fittings, the tab will approach $700,000. A good bit of the money was spent on tank tests and endless experiments to find a new formula for speed...